No.904 Expeditionary Air Wing | |
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Active | 1 October 1944 | – 30 November 1946 1 April 2006 – December 2009
Disbanded | December 2009 |
Country | United Kingdom |
Branch | Royal Air Force |
Role | Expeditionary operations |
Part of | Part of No. 83 Expeditionary Air Group |
Home station | Kandahar Airfield, Afghanistan |
Motto(s) | Ex aere auxilium (Latin for 'Help from the air') |
No. 904 Expeditionary Air Wing was a wing of the Royal Air Force. It was stationed at Kandahar Airfield in Afghanistan controlling RAF operations at the air base there. It was activated on 1 April 2006 as part of a modernisation package to make the RAF more deployable on an expeditionary basis. It used to report to No. 83 Expeditionary Air Group.